Comprehending the degree to which software components support testing is important to
accurately schedule testing activities, train developers, and plan effective refactoring actions …

Nowadays, the growth in size and complexity of object-oriented software systems bring new
software quality assurance challenges. Applying equally testing (quality assurance) effort to …

Nowadays, software systems encounter repeated modifications in order to satisfy any
requirement regarding a business change. To assure that these changes do not affect …

Recently, many software companies have shifted to shorter release cycles from the
traditional multi-month release cycle. Evolution and transition of release cycles may affect …

In object-oriented software, unit testing is a level of software testing where each individual
class is tested by a dedicated unit test class. Unfortunately, due to time and resources …

This paper aims at empirically measuring the effect of clone refactoring on the size of unit
test cases in object-oriented software. We investigated various research questions related to …

This paper aims at exploring the impact of clone refactoring on the test code size, in terms of
number of operations, in object-oriented software. We investigated three research …

Unit testing plays a crucial role in object-oriented software quality assurance. Unfortunately,
software testing is often conducted under severe pressure due to limited resources and tight …

Les logiciels actuels sont de grandes tailles, complexes et critiques. Le besoin de qualité
exige beaucoup de tests, ce qui consomme de grandes quantités de ressources durant le …

When introducing automated tests in an existing codebase with limited effort, one needs to
prioritize the creation of the possible tests. To do so, fault-proneness metrics and test …